"Throughout House of Lords and Commons, an expansive, elastic line balances a compression of complex and vivid images. " Sandeep Parmar • Guardian "The House of Lord and Commons, like many first and second collections, is a reckoning on two levels: one, with the landscapes of childhood and adolescence in poems that attempt to speak with, and put the dead to rest, in the pursuit of a life and identity the speaker can call their own; the second, a reckoning with language – mining influence, as they did with memory, for what will become their own voice: a place, as Heaney said, ‘where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew’." Chad Campbell • The Manchester Review

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